Climate Change

By Chuks Oyema-Aziken The Director General, National Council on Climate Change, Mrs. Omotenioye Majekodunmi has harped on transparency in promoting climate actions, this is as Nigeria prepares for a robust outing at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30, holding in Belem, Brazil. She said this during a press…

Botswana’s fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home to cheetahs, African wild dogs, baobab trees, crocodiles, termites and owls that catch fish. Roughly the size of the state of Connecticut, the freshwater Okavango Delta opens into an enormous alluvial fan that stretches…

In a nation grappling with climate change, food insecurity, and a youth unemployment crisis, Ghana’s school gardens hold transformative potential. These student-run plots are not just patches of dirt; they are living classrooms where children learn science by testing soil, math by measuring yields, and the value of sustainability by…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 41, October 2025. SignificanceAs global climate change escalates aridity, ecosystem functions face increasing risk of collapse. Understanding functional persistence under aridity, particularly the contribution of soil microbiomes, is crucial for effective conservation ...Read More

Newly arrived Somalis, displaced by a drought, receive food distributions at makeshift camps in the Tabelaha area on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on March 30, 2017.   -   Copyright © africanews Farah Abdi Warsameh/Copyright 2017 The AP. All rights reserved. Last updated: 03/10 - 15:14 Somalia The U.N. food agency…

In 2015, nearly two dozen American youth sued the federal government, alleging that the United States violated their constitutional rights by facilitating the burning of fossil fuels and allowing greenhouse gas emissions to rise to dangerous levels. Their case, known as Juliana v. U.S., was dismissed in federal courts, but…

This summer, national park employees and visitors were asked to do something highly unusual: report any signs that failed to make America look great. The effort, stemming from an executive order from President Donald Trump, has already resulted in the removal of signs about the horrors of slavery, massacres of…

ANTANANARIVO — Ninety-five percent of lemur species are threatened by habitat loss, hunting and climate change. The direct threat is often understood to result from the actions of poor rural communities, but a forthcoming study has found that thousands of threatened lemurs are being hunted and killed every year to…

In 2024, as unpredictable rains, snow and heat beat down on Finland’s Arctic, reindeer struggled to secure food sources, say Indigenous Sámi herders who shuffle their packs from one grazing ground to another. According to researchers, this is an example of the much larger problem the species faces...Read More

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